Google Cloud And El Salvadoran Government Make Strategic Agreements For Technology Transformation

Nayib Bukele, President of the Republic of El Salvador (right) signed a collaboration with Google Cloud. (photo: twitter @googlecloud)

JAKARTA - Google Cloud and the government of El Salvador announced a multi-year agreement to support the country on its way to becoming a technology center in Central America. Under conditions agreed upon together, Google Cloud plans to establish a legal entity and Google Cloud office in the Republic of El Salvador, starting the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) agency for the country.

This insight will bring the infrastructure closer to where El Salvador's data is generated, and establish a Cloud Center of Excellence to provide technical guidance to businesses and organizations on how to benefit the most from cloud technology and innovation.

Throughout this 7-year strategic partnership, with unreachable legislative approval, Google Cloud and the government of El Salvador will work together to put cloud technology at the center of state modernization efforts in three different areas:

Digital government: Google Cloud will become El Salvador's strategic innovation partner, helping to secure government processes and projects digitally, including electronic invoices, permits, and other initiatives. El Salvador will use Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) as the basis for this transformation.

GDC is a hardware and software solution portfolio that expands Google Cloud infrastructure and services everywhere - to its own customer data center or locally on the edge of the network - meeting El Salvador's regulatory and connectivity requirements while still allowing the government to take advantage of all the benefits of cloud services.

Google Cloud's sending of GDCs in El Salvador made it the first Latin American government to take advantage of this powerful cloud technology.

Health: To support the country's efforts to provide world-class health services to residents, El Salvador has chosen to combine AI technology from Google Cloud to help doctors with real-time information access to improve public experience and health - including the entire community - across the country.

Education: Commitment to implementing an integrated Education Data Platform, providing administrators, educators, parents, and public education leadership the ability to receive timely, efficient, and consistent information.

This announcement advances efforts to modernize the country starting in 2021, when the Ministry of Education of El Salvador and the Department of Innovation of the country adopted Google Workspace as a major collaboration platform for 83 government agencies and more than 1.5 million students and teachers.

As a result, Google for Education is now the main learning platform for the entire national education system.

"El Salvador is advanced. We believe that foreign technology and investment are key to development. We are quickly becoming the center of innovation. This extraordinary alliance with Google Cloud opens up unprecedented avenues for innovation, economic growth, and enhanced public services. Google's global skills combined with El Salvador's determination are expected to define a technology landscape," said Nayib Bukele, President of the Republic of El Salvador, quoted by prinewswires.com.

"We look forward to working with El Salvador in advancing technological developments in Central America," said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. "Access to cloud computing has grown rapidly across various industries and territories around the world, allowing small companies and the public sector to use the same apps and services as more mature markets."

"Cloud computing can really change Latin America, and we hope to explore the full potential of those possibilities in El Salvador, by providing benefits to its citizens and encouraging economic development," added Kurian.

This effort is in line with Google's commitment to collaborate in creating a solid digital future for Latin America. Last year, Google announced an investment of US$1.2 billion (Rp18.2 trillion) in Latin America and the Caribbean over the next five years, including Google.org grants to Pro Mujer to help businesses led by native women in Central America gain access to micro loans and digital skills training.